About Dr. Michael Boeckh

Appointments

• Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division (VIDD) - Fred Hutch Cancer Center
• Professor, Clinical Research Division - Fred Hutch Cancer Center
• Head, Infectious Disease Sciences Program - Fred Hutch Cancer Center
• Professor, Medicine - University of Washington
• Attending Physician and Head, Infectious Disease Consulting Service - Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Current Studies

• Dried Blood Spot Testing of CMV Detection in HCT Recipients
• Ganciclovir to Prevent Reactivation of Cytomegalovirus in Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure and Sepsis (GRAIL Phase 3)
• A Phase III Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study to Examine the Efficacy and Safety of DAS181 for the Treatment of Lower Respiratory Tract Parainfluenza Infection in Immunocompromised Subjects
• Trial on Efficacy and Safety of Pritelivir Tablets for Treatment of Acyclovir-resistant Mucocutaneous HSV (Herpes Simplex Virus) Infections in Immunocompromised Subjects
•  Pharmacokinetics of Sovotrimab as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for COVID-19 in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
• COVID Immune Protection Study (COVID IPS)
  
• Infection in HCT recipients (observational studies)

Education

• Freie Universitat Berlin, 1988, PhD (Medicine)
• Freie Universitat Berlin, 1985, MD

Research Interests

• Cytomegalovirus: immune reconstitution, virus-host interactions, diagnostic, mechanisms of primary CMV infection via blood and stem cell products, impact in immunocompetent subjects with respiratory failure, prevention in transplant recipients
• Respiratory virus infections in immunocompromised hosts: biomarkers, molecular diagnostics, disease associations, pathogenesis, immune response, treatment, prevention
• Genetic basis of infection complications in transplant recipients: whole genome studies and gene expression studies
• Infections in the immunocompromised host: disease manifestations, risk factors, and outcome studies
• Pathogenesis of infectious and non-infectious complications in immunocompromised hosts

Clinical Expertise

• Infections in the immunocompromised host, especially diagnosis, prevention and treatment of CMV, VZV, HHV6, BK virus, adenovirus, and respiratory virus infections

Teaching/Mentoring Interests

• Infections in the immunocompromised host: biomarker, outcome research
• Genetic basis of infectious complications

Additional Links & Info

• Michael Boeckh Google Scholar
• Faculty Profile